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Welcome to Buildbot!

The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. The guilty developer can be identified and harassed without human intervention. By running the builds on a variety of platforms, developers who do not have the facilities to test their changes everywhere before checkin will at least know shortly afterwards whether they have broken the build or not. Warning counts, lint checks, image size, compile time, and other build parameters can be tracked over time, are more visible, and are therefore easier to improve.

The overall goal is to reduce tree breakage and provide a platform to run tests or code-quality checks that are too annoying or pedantic for any human to waste their time with. Developers get immediate (and potentially public) feedback about their changes, encouraging them to be more careful about testing before checkin.

Debian Users: install the 'buildbot' ​package from the 'unstable' or 'testing' distribution.

Ubuntu Users: install the 'buildbot' ​package from the Dapper 'universe' section (version 0.7.2 in dapper, 0.7.4 in edgy). (thanks to Matthias Klose for making both of these debian versions happen!). For newer versions, look for backports or install from source.

Solaris Users: you have to install buildbot from source yourself, but Matthew Flanagan has written a ​Solaris 10 SMF manifest which will help automatically launch the buildmaster or buildslave as a Solaris service.

Support

Please join the ​buildbot-devel mailing list to be notified about new releases, discuss how to configure and use the buildbot, and to hear about new development. This is both a user and a developer mailing list.

HelpfulPages contains a collection of articles and blog postings about Buildbot.

Miscellaneous

If you'd like to edit these pages, please use the "Register" link at the top
right corner of this page to create an account. I'd appreciate it if you'd
add a useable email address when you do so (using the "Settings" link). The
machine that hosts this Trac instance cannot yet send mail, but eventually it
will, and having a working email address will make it easier to receive
ticket change notifications and the like.